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Of the City and the Forest

from The Beautiful Unknown by Plainspoke

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I wanted to try out a softer-spoken track, and ended up liking my voice more like this. This song was inspired by an unfinished painting my friend Travis did of the Chicago skyline.

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look at the skyline
fade into the clouds
like faces that aren't mine
facing the crowd
I walk in a straight line
down a street I've never been
hoping for the best
but getting no less
than deficits
of interaction
medicated, pre-meditated
talks and action
I wave but no one sees me
passerby pass me by
as I begin bleeding
but I'm bad at falling
didn't learn from the previous proceedings
ashes in the urn
are calling my name
but it's a cardboard box
because we treat the dead like rocks
and treat the living just the same

I pay for the pain
with my introversion
can't keep up the levels of dopamine
and I'm back for the burning
turning my back to the furnace
wishing it would pull me in
but back to the burdens
I met on a whim
through people I met
at a flimsy excuse for gathering
disjointed parts and techno-babbling
I pour my heart but it's vaporized
into the food that no one takes for mine
thrown away in paper rinds
don't remember my name but I'm
the only one that isn't making lies

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from The Beautiful Unknown, released March 1, 2012
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